Memorandum-calendar.



K. & A. McKINNON.

MEMORANDUM CALENDAR.

. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 20,1 915.

8 37. Patented Aug. 21, 1917.

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MEMORANDU'M CALENDAR.

APPLlCATION map FEB. 20. 1915.

Patented Aug: 21, 1917.

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KENNETHMUGKIN'NLONAND ALEXANDER MGKIN'NON, or Moonnroiv, NORTH DAKOTA.

MEMORANDUM-CALENDAR;

Specification of Letters Patent: T Patgnted A u0321 191% Applicationfiled. February 20, 191 5., Seria1 o. 9,674.

N'oN and ALEXAN E MoKINNoN, citizens of the United States, residing atMooreton, in

the county of Richland and State of North Dakota, have invented new anduseful Improvements in Memorandum-Calendars, of which the following isa. specification.

This invention relates to memorandum calendars, the object in view beingto produce a simple, attractive and handy calendar which in addition tocolumns of characters designating the days of the week and the days ofthe month, embodies other columns or vertical rows of pockets and slipsinsertible in and removable from said pockets, each of said slips havinga colored signaling face or side, and a memorandum side upon which anydesired memoranda may be written to serve as a reminder of eventsneeding special attention on the particular day which said sliprepresents in accordance with its position and relation to the days ofthe week and days of the month.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in thenovel construction, combination and arrangement of parts, as hereindescribed, illustrated and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a front or face view of thecalendar.

Fig. 2 is a rear view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section taken through two oppositely locatedpockets.

Fig. 4: is a vertical section taken through one of the vertical rows ofpockets.

The calendar contemplated in this invention embodies a front face orsheet 1 which may be composed of card board or other material the samehaving thereon a central column or vertical row indicated at 2containing designations of the days of the week as shown in. Fig. 1.

Other parallel'columns or vertical rows 3 are provided at opposite sidesof the central column 2 and in spaced relation to each other, thecolumns 3 having numerals arranged in numerical order and representingthe days of the month.

At opposite sides and along the vertical margins of the front sheet 1 ofthe calendar are vertical rows at of pockets, the sheet 1 being providedwith a like number of apertures or openings 5 the purpose of which willappear.

One or more backing sheets 6 are secured KENNETH McKIN- narily be whiteto the rear side of the face sheet 1 and are held in spaced relationthereto by means of spacing and division strips 7 arranged in verticalrows and in parallel relation to each other. 9 designates a pair ofstops extending vertically along theinner edges of the division strips 7and forming rear end walls for the pockets. Thus each of the pockets isclosed at the front and back and at the top and bottom and at the inneredge, the outer end of each pocket being left open to admit of theinsertion therein and removal therefrom of signaling and memorandumstrips 9, there being a strip 9 for each pocket.

To frictionally retain the strips 9 in their respective pockets, thebacking sheet 6 is indented as shown to form a projection 10 extendinginwardly in relation to the pocket so as to press against the slips 9thereby preventing said slips from being dislodged in handling thecalendar. Each of the slips 9 has a memorandum face which will ordisothat pencil memoranda may be written thereon, While the opposite face ofeach slip is of any desired color to serve as a signal when such coloredface is exposed through the respective opening or aperture 5 of thepocket in which that slip is placed.

In the use of the memorandum calendar hereinabove described, the ownerwrites certain memoranda on one of the slips and in serts the same inplace opposite the desired date indicated by the columns 2 and 3 and inthe insertion of such slip, the colored signaling face is arranged so asto be exposed through the respective opening or aperture 5. This systemis carried out through the entire face of the calendar and a mere glanceat the calendar on any particular day will show whether or not there isany important event needing attention on that day. If the signaling faceis exposed on such day, the memorandum slip is withdrawn from its pocketand the necessary information obtained. As the days pass, the slips arere moved from their pockets and serve as a record of important eventswhich were attended to on the days in question.

If desired, thumb notches 11 may be formed in the side marginal edges ofthe front sheet 1 to facilitate the withdrawal of the memorandum slips.The memorandum calendar as represented in Fig. 1 constitutes only oneun't of a complete yearly calendar, there being twelve of such units toform an annular calendar. The calendar as a whole is designed withspecial reference to household use and for the use of farmers, laborersand small business concerns where a regular memorandum'system is notmaintained.

What we claim is In an article of the class specified, a sheetlike bodyof vertically elongated rectangular the first named columns and alsoformed Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, byaddressing the having designations for with observation openings of lessvertical and horizontal dimensions than the spaces in which they areformed, backing strips arranged behind said openings and attached to thebody, horizontal guiding strips interposed between said body and backingstrips and between said openings, leaving pockets of greater widthvertically than said openings, and slips inserted in said pockets andeach reversible so that either side may be presented toward therespective opening.

In testimony whereof we affiX our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

KENNETH McKINN ON. ALEXANDER McKINN ON Witnesses:

D. L. QUINLAN, JOHN KIRKHUS.

Washington, D. 0.

Commissioner of Patents,

